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Absolutism And Enlightenment Flashcards

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This guy believed that there should be a separation between church and state.

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Voltaire

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This guy believed that everyone was evil and needed a monarch.

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Thomas Hobbes

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Believed the government should be split up into 3 sections.

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Montesquieu

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Believed that people were born with natural rights and should keep them.

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John Locke

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Believed that the people and government and the social contract.

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Rousseau

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The belief that kings received the power to rule from God

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Divine right

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Person that took lead during the revolution

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Robespierre

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A time where a bunch of people were being executed by the guillotine.

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Reign of terror

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Last king of France

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Louis XVI

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Last queen of France

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Mari Antoinette

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A time period when the king was taken off of the thrown and people question how France was being ran.

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French Revolution

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Contraption that chopped people’s heads off

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Guittone

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During the reign of terror, who was safe from the guillotine?

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NO ONE!!

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What was Napoleon able to accomplish during the peacetime?

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All of it was true

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Isaac Newton explained what?

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Law of universal gravitation

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What concept was the belief in divine right used to support?

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Absolute right

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Which of the groups suffered the greatest loss of power from the reign of Ivan the terrible?

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The serfs

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Why did Peter the great build the city of st.petersberg?

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He wanted a city on a seaport that would make it easier to travel west.

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Which group imposed the reign of terror?

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The committee of public safety

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What was napoleons last defeat as emperor of France?

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Waterloo

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Who was the first Russian ruler to claim the title of Czar?

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Ivan the terrible

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What was Peter the great’s main goal while ruling Russia

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Westernizing russia

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